Card holder



Oct. 21, 1952 L. s, KNElFEL ETAL 2,614,350

CARD HOLDER Filed Feb. 1?, 1948 DATE MILEAG JNVENTORSZ LAURENCE S. KNEIF'EL HERBERT \l. SHARLlTT or supplemental securing means.-

Laurenceis Kneifel, Cleveland, andH erbe'rtfV' f "Sharlitt; Shaker HBightS OhiO', assignor's't'oj 1' if 'Tran'sparent'Specialties Corp, Clevelahd,hio;

a corporation of0hio Application February 17, 1, isfseriaiNq.8,8451,-

l'ihisinven iorir'elates, as indicated, to a holder for cardsand' he like." l

" E'Aprima'ry obj ect' pfv the invention is tofprovide I Y 1 rticularly adapte'dfor hold ing'fpri; ted cards on" which periodical records or notat ons'are'to be made, such for example, as

record cards used by gasoline service stations for keeping records 'of f oil :changes, chassis lubrication anddifierential checks, and other pertinent data, but which is readily adapted for" the'support of recordcards of any character, as well as ordinary display or advertising, cards, pictures,

otherbbiect' of the inventionds-to provide 'a'i holder ofthe character described, into which t "car n be qu k d "915 1? i diee from which itj'canbe just asduickly: and easily removed;

further obj ect of; the invention} is; to provide a holder offthe 'characterf described, which is "characterized by the use of a: transparent en'- e en: r gor e d 'f't I l F E whe eb the d Mitre m b i a iiqt peei d without removing the card from'the'holdeix.

"-A still further f'ob'ject of thednvention is to 3 provide a holder of' the character described, which inay be adhesively secured to and supported by"'a'- supporting 's'urface; uch' asawall apan automobile, without "the use ofextraneous A still f urther object oftheinvention'is to provide; holder of; the character described, which is hingedly secured to the adhesive supporting means, whereby the holder can be lifted .to a substantially horizontal position, without removal; from the supporting surface; whereby reading of the card, as well as removal from and insertion -o f ,;the-,card into the ;-holder-is greatly facimatedcm I a A-still further object o'f'the invention isto provide a holder of the character described, which maybe adhesively secured to a supporting surface -by' merely pressing portions thereof against such surface, but which can be removed from such surface, if necessary, without'loss ofthev adhesive and without marring the supporting surface." V if Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of thefollowing description.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure l is a front elevational view of a holder 1 cla (or; 40%10) embodying l the invention, and showing an auto,- mobile record cards'upported' therein; f .i F igure 2 is'a" end 'ievauonai view of the holder and ca'rd,as viewed-from the right of Figure l;

.Figure' 3 isa fragmentary rear elevational view ofthe holder and card,.jwi th end portions of the protective cloth strips lifted to indicate the man'- ner in which these are removed from the holder supporting member;

Figu e 4 is a gmentary m ge j b View on" anenlarged scale, taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 1, and l Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 4, but show ing the protective strips removed from theholder supporting 'member, and the latter adhesively secured to a supporting surface.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the holder will be seen to comprise a body portion or member in theform of a strip of transparent material folded as at I to form a front wall or window 2 and a rear Wall or window 3. The

material employed may be cellulose acetateor any other" transparent plastic; although other transparent materials such ascellophane or isinglass may be used. l

The left edges of the walls Zand as viewed in Figure l, are preferably electronically welded orotherwise' secured to each otherto' close the strip at this edge and to form, in effect, a closedendenvelope; but if desired, these edges may be l'eftjun'secured -to each other, that is to say, the left endof the holder may be lefto'pen. The wall 3, as viewed in'F-igure 1,.is' preferably extended beyond the right end of the wall'2, to provide a projection 4, having a substantially semi-circular recess 5, whichserves a purpose'tojbepresently described. I

' "Disposed in embracing relation to the upper ends-or the walls 2; and 3, isY-abinding tape 6 formed of any desiredthin fabric, such, for example, as oiled cloth, and having a front portion disposed in contiguous relation to the front face of the wall 2 of the holder and a rear portion 8 disposed in contiguous-relation to the rear face of the wall 3 of thef holder; This binding which may be of any desired color,'serves not only as a'finish trim for the upper edge of the transparent envelope or holder, but also serves to protect the hands of a person from coming into contact with the raw or sharp upper edges of the walls 2 and 3. It further serves as a means for the attachment to the holder of a holder supporting strip to be now described.

The holder supporting member comprises a body layer or strip 9 of thin flexible material,

such as a suitable paper stock, having a pyroxylin-coated or glazed front surface, of any desired color, but preferably of the same color as the binding tape 6, and having its rear surface completely coated with a backing layer or thin coating of a permanently-tacky, pressure-sensitive adhesive, such. a arubb r compound, as indicated by, the stipplingin Fig. 3, this adhesive being intimately bonded with the body layer. The coating of pressure-sensitive adhesive on the surface [0 is normally protected by means of a strip of glazed masking or protective material, such as Holland Cloth, which facilitates handling of the holder supporting member and which 0 is adhesively secured to the-strip 9*? by means of the aforesaid adhesive, but can be readily removed from such strip without detachment of of the card into the holder.

Although the invention has been described particularly with reference to the support of a card, suchas an automobile record or protection card, it will be understood that the holder is readily adapted for holding record cards ofany char- .acter, as welgl as -ordinary display or advertising cards, pictures, etc.

the adhesive from the strip 9--l'0. This protective or masking strip is substantially coextensive in area with the surface), and, for convenience in r mo in por i n ther of s longitudinally scored, along the spaced waveelike lines ll and l 2 into an upper section 13; a central or intermediate section 14', and a, lower section l5. Strip mat rial, t s ch racte s. readily o tainabl and for a further detailed description thereof, refe ence may be had'to United .States .Patents .NOS- 9 123 a d. 2, 6 9

The aforesaid holder supporting member is nr f rab ys c rod o h ho er s y e ns f a line of stitching 16, which extends through the elements 7', 2, 3, '9, 9 and M, as clearly shownin Figures 4. and 5.- f de red, her means of securin th .holder supporting member to the holder, may be employed,.s oh s r v t s p ng,

etc.

Iheholder, estrus described, is particularly odioal records or not ions a e o be e, as

iorexaniple, records, cards used by gasoline service stations for keeping records of oil changes,

.holder if no notations, have to" be made thereon.

The recess ,5 facilitates. grasping of the end of the card between the thumb'and indexfingeigand thus. ,facilitatesjinsertion .and removal of the card.-

.'Ijhe holder isadapted to be adhesively-secured to a vertical support surface, such as indicated atl8 inFigure .5, which surface maybe the fire wall-of an automobile; orother surface. For this purpose, the sections. l3 .and of the protective strip are removed as bybending the strip along the-scored lines Hand l-Z, then lifting the ends of the sections 13 and [5, as indicated in Figure 3, and pulling these. sections from the holder supporting memben The exposed.- portions of the adhesive coating on; the surface H). are then pressed against. the supporting surface [8, as

shown in Figure 5.. In this manner, the holder adapted for holding, printed cards on Which peri- It may also be noted that the line of stitching is along the center of the adhesive strip or supporting member 9. By-securing the transparent envelope to the stripalong such line, it is much more difficult to remove theadhesivestrip from a supportingsurface by a directpull'onthestrip than if the line .of stitching were, adjacent the upper or lower-.edg'enof the strip. 9., This islfaparticularly important, feature of the invention,

It is to be understood that the form of our invention, herewithshown. and described, is tobe taken as a preferredexample of the same, and that various changes the. shape, size and .arrangement of parts. may be resorted to, without departing from thespirit of our invention, or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus describedour invention, we claim:

In combination, a ..transparent envelope closed at all of itsedges withthe exception of one of its side edges, .a binding .tapesecured to the upper edge of said envelope, a strip of flexible material having a pressure-sensitiveadhesive onits rear surface, a stripof protective, or maskingmaterial covering said adhesivesaidprotective strip being divided into upper, intermediate, and lower sec,-

tions by wave-likelines of scoring, the-1 1.2981 and lower sections being removable from the adhesive, and means securing-- said-binding: tape-to said flexible strip along the center of said flexible strip, whereby said envelopeis pivotally connected to saidfiexible-strip and may be swungzto a substantially horizontal position when said flexible strip is adhesively connected to a vertical supportingsurface. I j

LAURENCE S. KNEIFEL. HERBERT V. SHARLITT;

;.REFERENCES a p The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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